Improvement in horseshoe-blanks



B. M. LEGG.

' HQRSESHQE BLANKS. No.181,690. I Patented Aug. 29, 1876.

ATTORN EYS l N PETERS, PHOTO UTHOGRAPHER WASMNGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

BENJAMIN M. LEGG, OF BEMENT, ASSIGNOR OF THREE FOURTHS OF HIS; RIGHT TO DWIGHT D. KIMEL, WILLIAM L. PITTS, AND ABBOTT L. STARR,

OF PIATT COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOE-BLANKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 81,690, dated-August 29, 1876; application filed August 5,1876.

Improvement in Horseshoes and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figure of the drawings is a representation of a plan view of my horseshoe.

This invention consists in an improvement in the manufacture ofhorseshoes, whereby the shoe and the toe call; are made in one piece from a single blank of wrought-iron, thus obviating the necessity of welding a separate calk on the toe of the shoe.

In the annexed drawings, A indicates a blank of wrought-iron, having a front extension, A, at the toe thereof, and in the same piece therewith. Said blank is perfectly flat, and shaped like a horseshoe; and extension A has the size and shape of the toe-calk that is ordinarily welded on the toe of a horseshoe,

to prevent slipping on hard ground, stone,

wood, ice, or other unyielding substances.

These blanks are easily packed away, as they fit tightly and evenly together, and each constitutes in itself an article of manufacture and merchandise.

\Vhen applied to the hoof the extension A is struck down, so as to form a toecalk, and

the shoe is complete. Said calk may be made BENJAMIN M. LEGG.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT D. KIMEL, MARION Ooo'rER. 

